Erik

The iSquint version of progress indication is a great sample of what could be called “re-inserting humanness” by design choices that go very much out of the ordinary in places where people are fully conditioned to look for a defined set of options.

It is, in this regard, very similar to Pownce’s “gender” options (guy, girl, dude, bloke, bird, chicky-poo, etc.) Do any other examples come to mind?

Bob: We’re always trying to showcase our sites in new and different ways, and also recently launched an iPhone version of our site which has had a good response.

Jason

on 03 Oct 07

Ah, progress bars. My nemesis, we meet again.

It drives me bonkers when they’re not even close to accurate. But at least iSquint is honest about it. I am also a VisualHub owner and like its “honesty” as well.

One of the many things I like about my Tivo - the progress bar / time bar on recorded programs is dead-on accurate, visually and numerically. My Comcast DVR is just atrocious. The time marker looks like you have maybe 1/10th of the program left, the timer says you’re at 26 min out of 30 min - then the program just ends. So annoying. And don’t you dare even try to fast forward or rewind in that last 4 minute area, it just zooms back and forth at seemingly random intervals.